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1251 BC- A solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes, Greece.

70 - A Roman army under General Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem.

1191 - Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf - Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.

1539 - Guru Angad Dev ji becomes the second Guru of the Sikh.

1776 - World's first submarine attack: the American submersible craft Turtle attempts to attach a time bomb to the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship HMS Eagle in New York Harbor.

1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Borodino - Napoleon defeats the Russian army of Alexander I near the village of Borodino.

1818 - Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.

1821 - The Republic of Gran Colombia (a federation covering much of presentday Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador) was established, with Simón Bolívar as the founding President and Francisco de Paula Santander as vice president.

1822 - Brazil declares its independence from Portugal.

1860 - Steamship Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 400 lives.

1864 - American Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia, is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.

1876 - In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are surrounded by an angry mob and are nearly killed.

1901 - The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.

1906 - Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the 1st time successfully.

1907 - Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.

1909 - Eugene Lefebvre (1878-1909), while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane, crashes at Juvisy France when his controls jam. Lefebvre dies, becoming the first 'pilot' in the world to lose his life in a powered-heavier-than-air-craft.

1911 - French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.

1915 - Former cartoonist Johnny Gruelle is given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.

1921 - In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.

1927 - The University of Minas Gerais is founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, by GovernorAntônio Carlos.

1927 - The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Taylor Farnsworth.

1936 - The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.

1940 - World War II: The Blitz - Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on London. This will be the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.

1940 - Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.

1942 - Holocaust: 8,700 Jews of Kolomyia (western Ukraine) sent by German Gestapo to death camp in Belzec.

1943 - A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas, kills 55 people.

1950 - Coal mine collapses in New Cumnock, Scotland - 13 miners dead. 116 rescued.

1950 - The gameshow Truth or Consequences debuts on television.

1953 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Central Committee.

1963 - The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.

1965 - China announces that it will reinforce its troops in the Indian border.

1965 - Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlight, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Pirahna on the Batangan Peninsula.

1966 - The final new episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show airs (the first episode aired on October 3, 1961).

1969 - Monty Python's Flying Circus records first episode.

1970 - An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.

1970 - Fighting between Arabic guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.

1971 - The Beverly Hillbillies airs for the last time on CBS (the first episode debuted on September 26, 1962).

1977 - The Torrijos-Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The US agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.

1978 - While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from in a specially-designed umbrella.

1979 - The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) makes its debut.

1979 - The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for USD $1 billion to avoid bankruptcy.

1986 - Desmond Tutu becomes the first black to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.

1986 - Gen. Augusto Pinochet, president of Chile, escapes attempted assassination.

1988 - Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz TM-5 after 9 days on the Mir space station.

1996 - In Las Vegas, Nevada, actor and recording artist Tupac Shakur is shot several times after attending a boxing match, he would later die in the hospital due to his injuries from the shooting on September 13.

1997 - The first test flight of the F-22 Raptor takes place.

1999 - An earthquake registering 5.9 on the Richter scale rocks Athens, Greece, directly under the planned Olympic Village for the 2004 Games in Athens, collapsing buildings in the city's northern outskirts: 143 people are killed, nearly 12,000 injured, and 50,000 are left homeless.

2004 - The Serbian government backs a decision by Minister of Education and Sport Ljiljana Čolić to require the teaching of both creationism and evolution in schools.

2004 - Hurricane Ivan, a force 4 storm hits Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90% of its buildings.

2005 - First presidential election was held in Egypt.

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1395 - Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (d. 1450)

1524 - Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian (d. 1583)

1533 - Queen Elizabeth I of England (d. 1603)

1615 - Colonel John Birch, English soldier (d. 1691)

1707 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (d. 1788)

1717 - Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (d. 1791)

1726 - François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player (d. 1795)

1816 - Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Austrian physician (d. 1880)

1829 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist (d. 1896)

1836 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1908)

1860 - Grandma Moses, American painter (d. 1961)

1866 - Tristan Bernard, French writer (d. 1947)

1870 - Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian writer (d. 1938)

1870 - Jimmy Tompkins, Canadian Catholic priest (d. 1953)

1877 - Mike O'Neill, baseball player (d. 1959)

1885 - Elinor Wylie, American writer (d. 1928)

1887 - Edith Sitwell, English poet (d. 1964)

1889 - Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer (d. 1953)

1895 - Brian Horrocks, British general (d. 1985)

1900 - Taylor Caldwell, American author (d. 1985)

1908 - Paul Brown, American football coach (d. 1991)

1908 - Dr. Michael DeBakey, American heart surgeon

1909 - Elia Kazan, Greek-born film director (d. 2003)

1911 - Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian Communist dictator from 1956 to 1989 (d. 1998)

1912 - David Packard, American electrical engineer and businessman (d. 1996)

1913 - Sir Anthony Quayle, English actor (d. 1989)

1913 - Miguel Rolando Covian, Brazilian physiologist (d. 1992)

1914 - James Van Allen, American physicist (d. 2006)

1917 - John Cornforth, Australian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1917 - Jacob Lawrence, American painter (d. 2000)

1920 - Al Caiola, American guitarist

1921 - Arthur Ferrante, American popular pianist (Ferrante & Teicher)

1923 - Peter Lawford, English actor (d. 1984)

1923 - Madeleine Dring, English composer and actress (d. 1977)

1924 - Daniel Inouye, American Politician and Medal of Honor recipient

1925 - Allan Blakeney, Canadian politician, premier of Saskatchewan

1927 - Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, judge on the Supreme Court of Canada

1930 - Sonny Rollins, American jazz saxophonist

1930 - King Baudouin I of Belgium (d. 1993)

1932 - Paul Getty, American-born philanthropist (d. 2003)

1936 - Buddy Holly, American singer (d. 1959)

1937 - John Phillip Law, American actor

1938 - Susan Stamberg, American radio journalist

1939 - Donnie Allison, American race car driver

1940 - Dario Argento, Italian film director, producer and screenwriter

1944 - Robert Laxton, English politician

1944 - Bora Milutinovic, Serbian football coach

1944 - Sam Sloan, American chess journalist

1945 - Jacques Lemaire, Canadian hockey player and coach

1946 - Willie Crawford, baseball player (d. 2004)

1946 - Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist (d. 2001)

1946 - Joe Klein, American writer

1947 - Graham Young, British serial killer (d. 1990)

1949 - Lee McGeorge Durrell, American author, television presenter, and zookeeper

1949 - Gloria Gaynor, American singer

1950 - Julie Kavner, Jewish-American actress

1951 - Morris Albert, Brazilian singer

1951 - Chrissie Hynde, American guitarist and singer

1952 - Susan Blakely, American actress

1953 - Benmont Tench, American keyboardist

1953 - Mammootty, Indian actor

1954 - Corbin Bernsen, American actor

1955 - Mira Furlan, Croatian actress

1955 - Efim Zelmanov, Russian mathematician

1956 - Diane Warren, American song writer

1958 - Danny Chan, Hong Kong singer, actor, and songwriter (d. 1993)

1962 - Jennifer Egan, American novelist

1963 - Eazy-E, American rapper (d. 1995)

1966 - Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann, German speed skater

1968 - Marcel Desailly, French footballer

1969 - Darren Bragg, Baseball player

1972 - Jason Isringhausen, American baseball player

1973 - Shannon Elizabeth, American actress

1975 - Harold Wallace, Costa Rican footballer

1976 - Stevie Case, American video game celebrity

1977 - Nora Greenwald, American professional wrestler

1978 - Devon Sawa, American actor

1980 - Mark Prior, American baseball player

1980 - Emre, Turkish footballer

1980 - Gabriel Milito, Argentine footballer

1982 - Lorne Berfield, American actor

1984 - Farveez Maharoof, Sri Lankan cricketer

1984 - Vera Zvonareva, Russian tennis player

1985 - Alyssa Diaz, American actress

1987 - Evan Rachel Wood, American actress

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355 - Claudius Silvanus, Roman usurper

1151 - Geoffrey of Anjou (b. 1113)

1312 - King Ferdinand IV of Castile (b. 1285)

1496 - King Ferdinand II of Naples (b. 1469)

1548 - Catherine Parr, final wife of Henry VIII of England (born c. 1512)

1552 - Guru Angad Dev, second Sikh Guru (b. 1504)

1559 - Robert Estienne, French printer (b. 1503)

1632 - Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia

1644 - Guido Bentivoglio, Italian statesman (b. 1579)

1654 - Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller, Bohemian rabbi (b. 1579)

1655 - François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (b. 1601)

1657 - Arvid Wittenberg, Swedish field marshal (b. 1606)

1719 - John Harris, English writer

1729 - William Burnet, British-born American statesman (b. 1688)

1777 - Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia

1799 - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (b. 1717)

1809 - Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (b. 1737)

1840 - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (b. 1765)

1857 - William Lewis Herndon, American captain

1881 - Sidney Lanier, American writer (b. 1842)

1892 - John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet (b. 1807)

1920 - Simon-Napoléon Parent, politician, premier of the province of Quebec (b. 1855)

1921 - Alfred William Rich, watercolour painter (b. 1856)

1939 - Kyoka Izumi, Japanese novelist (b. 1873)

1943 - J. P. Morgan, Jr., American financier (b. 1867)

1951 - Maria Montez, Dominican actress (b. 1912)

1954 - Bud Fisher, American cartoonist, Mutt and Jeff (b. 1885)

1955 - Ham Fisher, American cartoonist, Joe Palooka (b. 1900)

1959 - Maurice Duplessis, Québec Prime Minister (b. 1890)

1962 - Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese historical novelist (b. 1892)

1962 - Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian singer (b. 1895)

1962 - Isak Dinesen, Danish author (b. 1885)

1962 - Morris Louis, American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1912)

1969 - Everett Dirksen, American politican (b. 1896)

1971 - Spring Byington, American actress (b. 1886)

1976 - Daniel F. Galouye, American author (b. 1920)

1978 - Keith Moon, English drummer (The Who) (b. 1946)

1982 - Ken Boyer, American baseball player (b. 1931)

1984 - Joe Cronin, Major League Baseball player and manager (b. 1906)

1985 - Rodney Robert Porter, British biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)

1991 - Edwin Mattison McMillan, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1907)

1994 - James Clavell, Australian-born American author (b. 1924)

1994 - Godfrey Quigley, British actor (b. 1923)

1994 - Terence Young, British film director (b. 1915)

1994 - Dennis Morgan, American actor (b. 1908)

1997 - Mobutu Sese Seko, dictator of Zaire (b. 1930)

1999 - Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist (b. 1949)

2001 - Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (b. 1930)

2002 - Erma Franklin, American singer (b. 1938)

2002 - Katrin Cartlidge, British actress (b. 1961)

2003 - The Great Antonio, Canadian eccentric (b. 1925)

2003 - Warren Zevon, American musician (b. 1947)

2004 - Bob Boyd, American baseball player (b. 1925)

2005 - Hope Garber, Canadian actress (b. circa 1924)

2005 - Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer (b. 1933)

2006 - Robert Earl Jones, American actor, father of James Earl Jones (b. 1904)

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RC Saints - Saint Regina; Saint Evurtius (Heortius), St. Cloud (Clodoald).

Also see September 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).

Brazil - Independence day (from Portugal, 1822).

Pakistan - Defence Day (Pak-Air-Force Day)

Mozambique - Victory Day.

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